Gesture video corpus

<div><b>This corpus contains videos of gestures that represent the meanings of 45 concrete and 45 abstract words. If used in your own research, please cite the following two papers: </b></div><div><br></div><div>Macedonia, M., Müller, K., & Friederici, A. D. (2011). The impact of iconic gestures on foreign language word learning and its neural substrate. <i>Human Brain Mapping, 32</i>(6), 982-998.</div><div><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.21084">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.21084</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mayer, K. M., Yildiz, I. B., Macedonia, M., & von Kriegstein, K. (2015). Visual and motor cortices differentially support the translation of foreign language words. <i>Current Biology, 25</i>(4), 530-535.</div><div><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214015693">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214015693</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>The corpus has also been used in the following additional papers: </b></div><div><br></div><div>Andrä, C., Mathias, B., Schwager, A., Macedonia, M., & von Kriegstein, K. (2020). Learning foreign language vocabulary with gestures and pictures enhances vocabulary memory for several months post-learning in eight-year-old school children. <i>Educational Psychology Review</i>, <i>32</i>(3), 815-850.<br></div><div><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-020-09527-z">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-020-09527-z</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Macedonia, M., & Knösche, T. R. (2011). Body in mind: How gestures empower foreign language learning. <i>Mind, Brain, and Education</i>, <i>5</i>(4), 196-211.<br></div><div><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-228X.2011.01129.x">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-228X.2011.01129.x</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Macedonia, M., Lehner, A. E., & Repetto, C. (2020). Positive effects of grasping virtual objects on memory for novel words in a second language. <i>Scientific Reports</i>, <i>10</i>(1), 1-13.<br></div><div><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67539-9">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67539-9</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Macedonia, M., & Mueller, K. (2016). Exploring the neural representation of novel words learned through enactment in a word recognition task. <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>, <i>7</i>, 953.<br></div><div><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00953/full">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00953/full</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Macedonia, M., & Repetto, C. (2016). Brief multisensory training enhances second language vocabulary acquisition in both high and low performers. <i>International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research</i>, <i>15</i>(3), 42-53.<br></div><div><a href="http://mail.ijlter.org/index.php/ijlter/article/view/578">http://mail.ijlter.org/index.php/ijlter/article/view/578</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Macedonia, M., Repetto, C., Ischebeck, A., & Mueller, K. (2019). Depth of encoding through observed gestures in foreign language word learning. <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>, <i>10</i>, 33.<br></div><div><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00033/full">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00033/full</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mathias, B., Klingebiel, A., Hartwigsen, G., Sureth, L., Macedonia, M., Mayer, K. M., & von Kriegstein, K. (2020). Motor cortex causally contributes to auditory word recognition following sensorimotor-enriched vocabulary training. <i>arXiv:2005.08956</i>.<br></div><div><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08956">https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08956</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mathias, B., Sureth, L., Hartwigsen, G., Macedonia, M., Mayer, K. M., & von Kriegstein, K. (2021). Visual sensory cortices causally contribute to auditory word recognition following sensorimotor-enriched vocabulary training. <i>Cerebral Cortex</i>, <i>31</i>(1), 513-528.<br></div><div><a href="https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/31/1/513/5909778">https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/31/1/513/5909778</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mayer, K. M., Macedonia, M., & von Kriegstein, K. (2017). Recently learned foreign abstract and concrete nouns are represented in distinct cortical networks similar to the native language. <i>Human Brain Mapping</i>, <i>38</i>(9), 4398-4412.<br></div><div><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.23668">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.23668</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Repetto, C., Pedroli, E., & Macedonia, M. (2017). Enrichment effects of gestures and pictures on abstract words in a second language. <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>, <i>8</i>, 2136.<br></div><div><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02136/full">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02136/full</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Wriessnegger, S. C., Hacker, C., Macedonia, M., & Müller-Putz, G. R. (2019). The impact of gestures on formal language learning and its neural correlates: A study proposal. In F. D. Davis, R. Riedl, J. vom Brocke, P. Léger, A. B. Randolph (Eds.), <i>Information systems and neuroscience</i> (pp. 85-91). Springer, Cham.</div><div><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-01087-4_10">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-01087-4_10</a><br></div>